However, where some of the beliefs of modern day transsexual people that they are not transgender, is reflective of this historical division (Denny 176), other transsexual people state that someone choosing to retain their former physical sex (no SRS) is very different from someone who needs to be of "the other sex", that the groups have different issues and concerns and are not doing the same things. [ 18 ] The latter view is rather contested, with opponents pointing out that merely having or not having some medical procedures hardly can have such far-reaching consequences as to put those who have them and those who have not into such distinctive categories. Toutefois, lorsque certaines des croyances des gens moderne transsexuel qu'ils ne sont pas transsexuels, est le reflet de cette division historique (Denny 176), d'autres personnes transsexuelles Etat que quelqu'un choisissant de conserver leur ancienne prostituée physique (pas de SRS) est très différente de quelqu'un qui a besoin d'être de «l'autre sexe», que les groupes ont des problèmes et des préoccupations différentes et ne sont pas faire les mêmes choses. [18] Le dernier point de vue est plutôt contestée, avec des adversaires qui ne font que souligner ayant ou non une certaine médicaux procédures peine peut avoir une telle portée des conséquences que de mettre ceux qui les possèdent et ceux qui n'ont pas dans de telles catégories distinctes. Notably Harry Benjamin's original definition of transsexualism does not require that they need to have had SRS. [ 16 ] Notamment la définition originale de Harry Benjamin de transsexualisme ne requiert pas qu'ils ont besoin d'avoir eu SRS. [16]

[ edit ] Stealth [ modifier ] furtif Some transsexual men and women choose to live completely as members of their target gender without being public about their past. Certains hommes transsexuels et les femmes choisissent de vivre complètement en tant que membres de leur sexe cible sans être public au sujet de leur passé. This approach is sometimes called stealth. Some people feel that they have an obligation to be open about their past in order to further the cause of civil rights for LGBT people. Cette approche est parfois appelée furtivité. Certaines personnes se sentent qu'ils ont une obligation d'être ouvert au sujet de leur passé afin de faire avancer la cause des droits civils des personnes LGBT.

Regardless of whether or not transsexual women have undergone SRS, the majority of transsexual women consider the word "shemale" to be offensive, and being referred to as a "shemale" to be highly insulting.

Films depicting transgender issues include: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean , Transamerica , The World According to Garp , The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert , and The Crying Game . The film Different for Girls is notable for its depiction of a transsexual woman who meets up with, and forms a romantic relationship with, her former best friend from her all-male boarding school. Ma Vie en Rose portrays a six-year-old child who is gender variant .

Before transsexual people were depicted in popular movies and television shows, Aleshia Brevard — an actual transsexual whose surgery took place in 1962 — was actively working as an actress and model in Hollywood and New York throughout the 1960s and '70s. Aleshia never portrayed a transsexual or transgender person, though she appeared in eight Hollywood produced films, on most of the popular variety shows of the day including The Dean Martin Show , and was a regular on The Red Skelton Show and One Life to Live before returning to University to teach Drama and Acting. [ 61 ] [ 62 ]

Transsexual people have also been depicted in some popular television shows. In Just Shoot Me! , David Spade 's character meets up with his childhood male friend, who has transitioned to living as a woman. After initially being frightened, he eventually forms sexual attraction to his friend, but is scorned, as he is 'not her type'. In an episode of Becker Dr. Becker gets an out-of-town visit from an old friend who turns out to have undergone SRS, it plays out very similar to the situations in Just Shoot Me! . This same thing happens in an episode of Two and a Half Men . In a 1980s episode of The Love Boat , McKenzie Phillips portrays a trans woman who is eventually accepted as a friend by her old high school classmate, series regular Fred Grandy . In the 1970s on The Jeffersons , George's Navy buddy Eddie shows up as Edie and is eventually accepted by George.

In part of the first season of the 1970s tv comedy series, Soap , Billy Crystal plays Jodie Dallas , a gay man who is about to undergo a sex change in order to legally marry his male lover, who breaks off the relationship just before the surgery.

In the television show, Ugly Betty , the character Alexis Meade ( Rebecca Romijn ), formerly Alex Meade, is a post-op transsexual who, before transitioning, faked her own death so she could start her life over as a woman. When Alexis realizes that she can get back at her father (who said he would rather see her dead than as a woman) she comes out of stealth and takes over their business after she tips the authorities off that her father killed Fey Sommers, a character whose death immediately preceded the start of the first series. A serious car accident later leaves Alexis with amnesia , and she forgets the entire previous two years – including her transition from male to female.

The series Law & Order and Nip/Tuck have had transsexual characters. However, in Nip/Tuck, the role was played by a non-transexual woman; in Law & Order, some were played by professional cross-dressers (although Katherine Moennig played a male-to-female transexual in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (episode " Fallacy ")). The series Without a Trace featured an episode in which a transsexual woman went missing and is almost killed by her ex-wife's husband after visiting her family, which she abandoned before transitioning. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation had an episode dealing with a transsexual victim, "Ch-Ch-Changes". [ 63 ] Many transsexual actresses and extras appeared on the episode, including Marci Bowers and Calpernia Addams . [ 64 ] The trans woman victim, Wendy, was played by Sarah Buxton , a cisgender woman. Addams has appeared in numerous movies and television shows, including the 2005 movie Transamerica , in which Felicity Huffman portrays a transsexual woman. [ 65 ]

Candis Cayne , a transsexual actress, appeared in CSI: NY as a transsexual character. From 2007–2008 she also portrayed a transsexual character (this time recurring) in the ABC series Dirty Sexy Money .

In fall 2005, the Sundance Channel aired a documentary series known as TransGeneration . This series focused on four transsexual college students, including two trans women and two trans men, in various stages of transition. [ 66 ] In February 2006, Logo aired Beautiful Daughters , a documentary film about the first all-trans cast of The Vagina Monologues , which included Addams, Lynn Conway , Andrea James , and Leslie Townsend. [ 67 ]

Thomas Harris ' Silence of the Lambs included a serial killer who considered himself a transsexual. After being turned down for sex reassignment surgery due to not meeting necessary psychological evaluations, he then harvested female bodies to make a feminine suit. In the novel it is noted that the character is not a transsexual; this distinction is made only briefly in the film. [ 68 ] The film has been accused of cashing in on homophobia and transphobia [ 69 ] Other film and TV shows portraying transsexual and transvestites as serial killers include Psycho , Dressed to Kill , The Dead Zone , Deadly Blessing , No way to treat a lady , Deranged , Homicidal , Three on a meathook, and Relentless .

The film Wild Zero features Kwancharu Shitichai, a transsexual Thai actor. When the main character is conflicted about falling in love with a woman who is also a man Guitar Wolf tells him "Love knows no race, nationality or gender!"

[ edit ] Pageantry Since 2004, with the goal of crowning the top transsexual of the world, a beauty pageant by the name of The World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Contest has been held in Las Vegas. The pageant accepts pre-operation and post-operation